WEBVTT - TGI- The BMW DNA! 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.680 Welcome to a special episode of Pod Meets World. This 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:25.919 episode is brought to you by twenty three and Me, 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:29.000 which you guys have heard us now over almost an 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:33.000 entire season of Boy Meets World, talking a lot about 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:36.800 our background actors and how important they were to the 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:39.760 feel of the show, to our set environment, how we 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:43.080 were friends with a lot of them. I'm gonna start 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:48.360 right off by saying, spoiler alert, there is no Dusty 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:51.080 in this episode. I'm really bummed about it. We have 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:57.240 been on a on a worldwide search for Dusty Gould. Yeah, 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:00.400 we haven't heard from seem by the way that came up. 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:04.480 You called her see Me to her face, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:06.399 she knew her name was see Me. Well, yeah it was. 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:08.759 It was the people thought that it was like a 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:11.360 behind her back sort of thing. Oh my gosh. Yeah no, 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:12.959 I mean I think there was something a little mean 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:15.440 about it at first, but then it just became that's 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:17.800 the problem. We don't remember her name because we always 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:20.039 called her see Me, and she responded to it like 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:22.600 that's what we did. Um. It was just because it 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:26.160 was the first week of the first season that we 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:28.000 asked her where she was from and she said see 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:30.440 me Valley and um. So we were just like, oh 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:33.160 my gosh, you're so you're a Valley girl. We'll call 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:36.080 you see me um, but yeah, I would love to 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:39.840 talk to her. Yeah. And Dusty, we're still on a hunt, 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.200 so you never know. But we are going to talk 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:45.040 to a few of our other background actors today because 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:47.800 it is very important for us and everyone to know 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:53.080 your background, speaking of which I am coming to you today. 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:57.480 So sleep deprived, and I guess it's really come to 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:00.200 my attention through my twenty three and me results that 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:04.560 I am less likely to be a deep sleeper, which 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:08.079 are you? Isn't that what it said? Yes, I think 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:11.960 I think we're can say this from your jeans. Isn't 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:14.359 it cool? By the way, another thing that I think 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:17.000 is amazing is that it tells me I am most 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:20.160 I am more likely to be photo sensitive, which means 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:22.799 I might sneeze when looking at the sun. And when 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:25.800 I tell you, I have never once walked into the 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:30.120 sun and not sneezed the exact same way. But I 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:33.720 didn't see that. Where did this say that? Of your 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:36.480 so much to read? I don't like like I haven't 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:40.840 explored all all the ins and out, and that's really 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:42.799 That's the really cool thing is that there are so 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:45.919 many different reports and some of them are just really fun, 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:48.360 like finding out you're more likely to be photo sensitive. 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:52.480 I'm also more likely to drink more caffeine than most, 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.360 and that checks right off right? Would you probably have 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:58.519 that too. I'm less likely to drink caffeine than most, 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:01.320 and I drink no caffeine. I have no caffeine in 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:03.840 my life whatsoever. And it says I'm less like and 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.560 I am not likely to be an especially deep sleeper. 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.040 I still don't get you. We were talking about delta 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.320 ways or something. Now as I heard what you're explaining 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:16.640 to me, Danielle, I'm a superhero, did you? Did you 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:21.560 explain it wrong? That's what's said, uh, superhuman, you have 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:25.760 mediclorians or whatever it is, and that you're a Jedi. Yes, 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:29.320 first of all, let's not that's that's it's in my 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:32.880 jeans though, that apparently due to my sleep patterns. That's 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:36.120 because of the underwear. That's because of the underwear. That too, 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:39.360 The underwear just makes me lucky twenty three and me 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:42.280 is telling me I'm a weak hold on. Let's talk 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:45.040 about ancestry. Just really quick. Did you guys learn anything 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:50.680 new or totally? So? What was what was the story 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:53.600 that your family told you and the reality of your Well, 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:56.080 it's not that my family told me something that was 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:59.640 just we just heard that we were Dutch and Irish 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:04.920 in German primarily. Um, that's what I knew. And it 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:12.000 come came out that I am almost Jewish. Nice, I 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:16.679 am nine ash can Nazi Jewish. Wow, And you didn't 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:18.960 know that, no idea whatsoever. And of course then when 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:21.360 I said that to my my parents, my dad was like, well, 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:23.760 of course my great grandfather was do or something where 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:27.359 we were like, well, why did anybody tell about that? Yeah? 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.680 You know, so that was completely I'm I'm I'm nine 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:34.760 point eight percent European and it's mostly northwestern European, so 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:37.799 British and Irish. What we thought, Um, lots of Irish, 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:41.679 lots of lots of British, but eighteen point seven percent 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:46.760 as Ashkenazi Jewish. So no no idea, no idea whatsoever. 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:50.920 I was shocked. Writer. Did you learn anything in yours about, 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:54.520 specifically about health, anything you're more likely to have or 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:58.400 not have? Oh? Yeah, it nailed me in three categories. 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:01.640 It said I am mostly too. I am most likely 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:05.200 to have restless legs restless leg syndrome, which I've had 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:08.279 all of my life and just had to deal with, 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:13.239 more likely for increased anxiety check and severe acne, which 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:17.280 you guys can remember from when I was on I 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:20.200 had severe acne. Yeah, and so did my dad. I 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:22.200 remember when I when you know, when I started breaking 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:24.560 out during boy me's work, cause I got it a 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:26.720 little bit later. I got it more like at fifteen 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:31.160 fourteen fifteen, um, when I had the really bad acne. 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:32.719 So we haven't gotten to it on the show, but 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.039 well we'll start to be able to see the the 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:37.800 amount of makeup. They had a cake on my face. 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:42.200 It was the worst, the worst. But yeah, knowing this 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:46.640 then about your your d n A makeup now that like, 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:49.599 is there something now you're going to change about your life? 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:52.440 Will you talk to your doctor about restless leg syndrome? 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:54.919 Is there anything or do you take anything for anxiety? 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:57.800 Will you start? Yeah? Well no, the anxiety thing is 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:01.960 really interesting because, um, I've never really thought of myself 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:05.599 as as an anxious person. Um, Like, especially when I 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:07.880 was a kid, I was not an anxious kid. Um, 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:11.560 But I do I have noticed lately that like I 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:16.160 need to exercise, Um, it's hugely important anxiety. And what 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:19.720 I realized is like, if I don't like the only 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:22.719 the way I manage anxiety, and I put that in 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:25.960 air quotes would be like drink alcohol and that's the 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:29.120 worst thing you can do to manage anxiety. Um. You know. 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:32.000 And especially like during the pandemic, there were there's these 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:34.760 these periods where like there would be you know, you're 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:37.040 not working, you're not taking your kids to school, everybody's 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:38.440 sitting at home. It would be like, well, why is 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:40.159 the day over? Why is it? You know, how do 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:42.040 we know the day is over? We have a glass 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:43.720 of wine and then you know, and we just got 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:46.039 into the habit of like, oh, that's just it's five 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:49.520 o'clock time to drink. Um. So I definitely think that 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:52.240 like being able to recognize that there's in a genetic 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:54.960 component to like the feelings I have of anxiety and 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:57.720 that it might just be part of my body makes 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.400 me remember to just move my body to deal with 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:03.320 it in terms of my body, as opposed to thinking like, oh, 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:06.359 there's something wrong, I need to like, uh, change you 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:08.640 know the way I think, or no, it's just part 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:11.280 of my body. Is that I get these feelings that 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:13.920 other people might not have, you know that that and 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:16.880 I don't need to associate it with like necessarily things 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:20.200 I'm I'm I've done wrong, or you know, I just 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:22.400 don't want to. I just don't. I Basically it allows 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:25.880 me to contextualize my anxiety and recognize it as like 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:29.800 it mostly physical thing, like something that is like you know, 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.200 I'm born with and that I just have to contend 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:33.920 with and it's and you know, I just have to 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:35.880 find healthy ways to contend with it. Well, I mean, 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:38.880 you know that I'm anxiety boy and I was hit 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:41.560 with this very bad during during boy Me thrilled like 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:44.520 very bag during Boyman. So then you'll see during the episodes, 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:46.240 you know, the seasons where I come back and I'm 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:49.400 really heavy, and it's because I was medicated to even record. 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:52.800 And the things I always tell people now that I've 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.040 been dealing with it for so long is the three 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:57.360 most important things for me that help more than anything 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:02.120 are talking about it, diet and exercise, and getting off 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:04.640 of social media. And the first two people are like, 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:06.240 I can easily do that, and then it's like, well, 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:07.680 I'm not going to get off social media. I need 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:08.960 it for work. What what do you do? I work 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:10.920 at a bank. Okay, you don't need your social media, 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:13.720 you're just addicted to it. But it's it's those three 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:16.840 things where moving your body exactly what you're saying is 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:19.760 just so unbelievably important. And it is it's all genetic. 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:21.239 I mean, I found out other people in my family 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:23.160 down the line. They might not have called it that 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:24.760 at the time. They might have said, you know, in 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:28.119 the fifties they had spells or whatever, because they didn't 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.320 know how to how to diagnose it. But that's all 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:32.960 that it was was it is. It's genetic anxiety and 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.880 and but that's one of the things about the twenty 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:39.240 three and me that was so amazing is those little markers. 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:41.679 For instance, that what it says when I looked at 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:44.840 the thing, your average wake up time, judging by your genetics, 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:49.680 is seven am. And that's like almost exactly every morning 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:54.400 when I roll out of bed, whoa literally literally almost 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:57.079 exactly every morning, Susan gets up before me because she's 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:59.760 got early clients. I doze in bed and by a 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:03.440 out seven forty to seven fifty, I'm up and out 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:05.800 and when. So when this thing comes out and it 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.960 says it's seven am, I'm going You've got to be 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:12.000 kidding me. How is that even possible? So, yeah, some 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:14.479 of these things are some of them, I gotta say. 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:17.120 It says that I'm not predisposed to being afraid of heights, 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:20.440 and I'm hugely afraid of heights, but that could also 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:24.160 be the anxiety part. But there are certain things that this, 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:26.440 you know, the muscle. Here's the other thing where it 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:28.840 made me feel like, yes, I am in fact magic. 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:33.760 Um is it says my muscle composition is common in 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:39.040 elite power athletes with mine, man, thank you, I'm a stallion. 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:43.480 Yeah me too, me too. I'm also though, uh, this 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:46.080 is not such a positive thing. I am also more 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:51.480 likely to have to develop type two diabetes. And as 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:55.920 you guys know, I love my sweets, I love my 0:09:56.160 --> 0:10:00.240 fast food, and so the good news is I have 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:04.200 generally my upbringing was that of like very healthy eating 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:07.679 and exercising, so I really try to enjoy those things 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:11.600 like sweets and fast food in some sort of moderation. 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:13.680 But it is really good for me to know that 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:17.200 um as I age, because it's I think it literally 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:19.440 says like, from the time you're forty one, which is 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:22.240 my exact age, up until the time I'm a d 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:27.520 I am like likely, so like really it's a worse 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:31.199 than a chance. And so it's good for me to 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:33.360 know those things because that's something I can stay on 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:36.320 top of with my doctor. Now, Like, let me get 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:38.600 regular screenings, let me stay on top of that, let 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:41.080 me make sure I'm watching my diet, and then I'm exercising, 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:44.520 because maintaining a healthy weight is one way to help 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:47.600 prevent that from happening. So I mean, I'm actually really 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:49.720 excited that I know that because now, like the last 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:51.600 time writer and I were at your house for a party, 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:55.040 there was literally, and I'm using that word correctly, a 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:58.720 board that had donuts hanging all off of it, and 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:01.440 the second you'd grab it don't nut, it would reappear 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:07.600 as if by magic. So I do love doughnuts, doughnut fan. 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:11.000 That's just called Sundays around here, diner food. But you're 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:13.920 a big diner food fans. At least it's Sundays and 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:16.679 not every day. Yeah, it's just Sundays. Yeah, No, I 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:19.880 I do. I love salty, I love sweet, I love 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:22.800 fried um I just like that kind of food, so 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:25.000 first salty or sweet. That that was the other thing 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:26.760 the app told me is that is that I prefer 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:29.880 salty over sweet, which is absolutely correct, so it does. 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:32.360 And it told me this is where the history kind 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.200 of buffing me loves. It told me that I have 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:39.040 that I have more Neanderthal DNA than most of the 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:46.240 other people. Ye. Yes, yes, we're elite power athlete Neanderthal's magic. 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:51.720 This is the coolest app in the world. I'm waiting 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:55.480 for my laser vision which will come. Um, but yeah, 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:59.360 this is I was. It's so amazed a by how 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:01.760 detail that gets. I do want to show you guys 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:07.040 my ancestry makeup because, um, look at how almost exactly 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:11.079 fifty percent of one thing I am. Wow you are 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:15.520 Yeah that is my uh that is my um my 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:19.760 Maltese side, that is my Southern European side. Wow, look 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:23.160 at you. Yeah, that's me right there. So I'm I'm 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:25.199 kind of all over the place. Yeah, I am forty 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:29.920 nine point five percent Southern European and fifty point five 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:33.920 percent Northwestern European. That's what I'm north. I'm sixty two 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:38.559 percent Northwestern European, which is which is interesting, but I'm 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:45.040 also it's like eight percent Italian. I had no idea 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:48.360 there's Italian anywhere in my family line, like no idea 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:52.880 whatsoever that we're partially Italian. So it's really really cool 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:56.600 kind of getting these breakdowns. But the other things where 0:12:56.600 --> 0:13:00.600 it's just talking about like whether you're lacto, some tallerant 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:03.360 or not, you're making your wake up time, whether you 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.400 like cilantro, like all those kind of things, the breakdown 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:09.800 is is really neat. I know, it is really fun. Well, 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:12.800 continuing to get to know our background, let us bring 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:18.760 in our very first background guest. So to give you 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:24.000 a little background about background actors. The actor the background 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:27.960 actor definition is someone who performs in a non speaking role, 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:30.960 usually in the background of a scene. They helped make movies, 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:34.199 TV shows, and other productions look and feel more authentic 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:38.680 and so hospitals, concert city streets would be completely empty 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:44.760 if not for hiring background actors. Yes, school cafeterias, classrooms. 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:51.080 So let us welcome our first background actor, Geenie Torres. 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:55.920 It's so good to see your faces again. I know 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:59.720 this is so fun. How did you become a background 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:02.800 act and how old were you? I was I think 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:06.120 it was eighteen, and it was my first year of 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.240 community college and I'm still trying to figure out what 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:13.200 to do. I was creative, UM, I kind of liked filmmaking, 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:16.880 editing things like that. Um, maybe I wanted to be 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.400 an actor, but I felt a little shy to be 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:22.880 on stage. So I remember talking to my dad and 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:24.840 he had said, hey, why don't you sign up to 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:27.120 be a background actor. You know, they can be on set, 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:29.160 you can see everything that they do. And I thought, Okay, 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:31.760 that's a good idea. So I went down to the 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:35.840 casting agency, you know, paid the will fee that you pay, 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:39.960 take a picture, get all your information, sign up, and 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.920 that's how I started. And so it's I don't know 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:45.400 if you guys want me to tell you about how 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:49.200 that whole process goes and you already know about it, okay, okay. 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:51.360 So the way they did, at least back in the 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:55.160 nineties was that you called a hotline and you listen 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:59.080 for something that maybe you fit. So for me and 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:02.240 I swear, it's like the only time we're looking young, 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:07.080 like really paid off. I've always um looked for eighteen 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:10.000 to look younger shows, which, of course Boy Meets World 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:12.520 was one of those shows, and so you listen to recording. 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:15.520 If you felt like you fit that, you know, that 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:18.440 type of those specs that they're looking for, you called 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:28.640 the number and then you gave them your social Security number. Everything. Yeah, 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:31.560 apparently like there was no big dam back then, So 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:33.960 you gave them your social Security number. That's actually how 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:36.280 how they had you filed. And they looked you up, 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:38.600 and I thought, yeah, you fit good, You're working tomorrow. 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:41.640 Here's your call time, bring you know, three sets of clothes. 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:45.880 That's where you're going. And that's it. And then described 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:48.480 my stuff pop in the car next morning and I'm 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:51.400 on my way. That's to me. I'm sorry, I'm looking 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:53.040 at a great picture of the two of us together 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:55.440 right now. Yeah, I am. I'm looking at an awesome 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:56.960 picture of the two of us right now. It's on 0:15:57.040 --> 0:16:00.280 on set. That's so cool. That is where were you living, 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:02.360 What was the what was the commute like then from 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:04.480 where you were living to where we were shooting. So 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:07.200 I would never do this commute nowadays. But I was 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.400 in South Orange County. I was down in mission game 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.800 and I remember called times being about seven thirty for 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:16.280 us in the morning in the morning, and I would 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:19.800 leave my house at six and that was fine, Like 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:25.000 I could get to the ktl A studios by six Wow, 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:29.640 and that was okay. Back then it is not okay. 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:32.560 Were you? Were you a mission Vie here? Were you 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:36.360 a Diablo? I wasn't. I was okay. My wife was 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:42.360 a Diablo. I won't tell you really rivals exactly. Oh 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:44.720 that's so funny. So what other shows were you a 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:48.560 background actor on? UM? I got booked on Nino two 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:52.360 and oh, let's see Party of five step by Step 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:57.720 with Christine Laken. Yes, there's a few those. I don't 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:00.840 know why those seemed to like stick out. UM. A 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:06.560 few movies. Babylon five that was really random but cool. 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.160 That was one of the coolest because you actually got 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:12.040 as an extra. You still got to have makeup done 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:14.199 and I got to look like an alien and it 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:16.280 was so not me but it was great. It was 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:18.960 so much fun. That's fun. So okay. So you were 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:21.920 on season three and four of Boy Meets World Walk 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:24.360 people through? Then? What would happen? So your call time 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:27.240 seven thirty am. What happens when you arrived to set? 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:30.120 What's the process? Like the arrived a set and then 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:33.080 the A d would pass out scripts to everyone and 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:35.920 you'd actually go through we probably spend like a good 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:39.160 hour maybe, and we'd go through the entire script and 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:42.800 she would say something like, Okay, Jeanie, on this line, 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:45.320 on writer's line, you're gonna go from the top of 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:48.119 the stairs to locker two, you know, and have a 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:51.520 conversation with somebody and then you know, let's say, Daniel 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:54.080 in your line, I was to exit and and leave, 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:58.600 you know, walk off set or whatever. So everyone had, um, 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:02.359 you know, there's blocking, different blocking with different crossings. I 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:04.320 think it's amazing. I don't know who put it together, 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:06.920 because it seems like that would take a long time 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:10.479 to figure out at least twenty extras and where they 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:12.199 were going and how they're not going to cross in 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:15.280 front of you, and it just it's like I know, 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:19.919 I mean, it's it's a dance exactly. And so this 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:25.679 would have been Deed, right, would have been Yes, So 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:29.040 she was our second second stage manager, and so she 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:30.840 would have been in charge of So Yeah, I wonder 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:33.200 if Deed mapped out all of those moves. I mean, 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:36.520 it must we have to have dd on, Yeah, we will, 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:39.199 we should. Yeah, And she was so good at it 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:42.440 like she was. She's just on and she's so friendly. 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:44.199 That was one of the things that I'm sure was 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:46.480 like a really, you know, I'm sure and I don't 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:48.399 want to put words in your mouth. Was was every 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:51.800 a D worked with on sets like wonderful and fun 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:53.760 to be around? Or were there some that were better 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:56.600 than others? She was the best. I will say she 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:59.920 was the best, and you know, maybe because I got 0:18:59.920 --> 0:19:03.040 the opportunity to come back and do more shows, but 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:05.760 she was amazing and Mike was Mike was great too. 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:09.639 I just I think everyone sometimes is in work mode 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:12.239 and as you guys know, you're pressed for time. You've 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:14.480 gotta get lines done. You know, you just gotta really 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:18.719 nail it. And I think maybe some were just like whatever, 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:22.080 do this, But with her, she was I don't know, 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:23.720 she was on it. She was on it, but still 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:26.600 like awesome and sweet. I have a question, just because 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:32.040 I'm curious behind you on your your your shelf back there, 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:35.520 does that say Transformers or am I wrong? You are correct? 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:37.440 Thank you? And it's a g I Joe. Is a 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:39.880 g I Joe? Next to that that is g I Joe. 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:43.119 We are absolutely friends. Which Transformers is it? Can I 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:46.480 ask from here, is not robot robots in disguise? Is it? No, 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:50.400 it's well, it's well, the game is information protocol. It's 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:53.600 I can't I can't tell America. Sorry, I think it's 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:56.280 Bumblebee on the cover. They're sorry. I'm just that's actually 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:59.879 my career job, So that is what. I'm a creative 0:19:59.880 --> 0:20:03.600 to actor for a boarding game company called Renegade Game Studios, 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:07.600 and I am in charge of the Hasbro Yes, I 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:11.119 worked for Hasbro for years, So that's I'm sorry. I 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:13.239 know I know my Transformer. I know my nerves, so 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:16.080 I know my Sorry. Yeah, I Joe my Transformers in 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:18.160 the background. I'm gonna call that out every time. I 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:22.840 love that. Yeah, So I want to know. Background actors 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:25.200 are not allowed to talk, but you have to make 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:29.760 it look like you're talking. Did you have any tricks 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:32.520 to making it look like you were talking but staying 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:38.760 totally silent? Um. No, there were no tricks and there 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:42.480 were no tricks. But I will say that becoming a 0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:46.080 regular right on the show and working with other regular extras, 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:48.840 there were times it was almost like we're trying to 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:51.439 make each other laugh without really blowing it. Right, So 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:55.400 you're gonna have conversations saying ridiculous things to each other 0:20:55.440 --> 0:21:00.720 at the lockers, saying things that just maybe are Yeah, 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:05.240 you're reading lips. Yeah, you're saying things that you could 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:07.920 go back through the episodes and read your lips. Sometimes 0:21:07.920 --> 0:21:14.000 you might be saying inappropriate Oh my god. Yes. Yes. 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:16.879 Did you become friends with all the other actras? Mean, 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:18.920 did you hang out offset because you were all kind 0:21:18.920 --> 0:21:22.480 of regulars there. We did sometimes. Yeah, I went out 0:21:22.480 --> 0:21:25.600 a lot with Wendy Smith. Um. And then there's a 0:21:25.600 --> 0:21:28.280 few of them that I've become Facebook friends with and 0:21:28.320 --> 0:21:30.280 we just keep in touch and we talked about the 0:21:30.280 --> 0:21:35.040 old days of Boy Meets World in certain episodes. Um. Yeah, 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:39.080 And any episodes stick out in your head that you did, Yes, 0:21:39.160 --> 0:21:42.040 and it's actually one with you well it's um, it's 0:21:42.119 --> 0:21:48.399 with the guitarist, oh um Lisha Haley. Yes, yeah, Shallow 0:21:48.440 --> 0:21:52.119 Boy Boy. Yes, that was a fun episode. That was 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:54.920 That was a fun episode. She was amazing. I really 0:21:54.920 --> 0:21:56.160 hope we get to have her on the show because 0:21:56.200 --> 0:21:58.639 she was absolutely incredible. That was a fun episode to do. 0:21:58.920 --> 0:22:00.680 Were you in the were you in the chubby scene 0:22:00.720 --> 0:22:04.960 where she was singing that's so yeah? Oh yeah, you 0:22:04.960 --> 0:22:08.000